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In his first visit to Europe since becoming Syria's president in January, Ahmed al-Shara, who overthrew dictator Bashar al-Assad last December, held talks in Paris on Wednesday with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron when he confided that his country was holding indirect talks with Israel to 'calm down' the military confrontation between the two. 

According to the prosecution, the bear, which the hunter said attacked him after he unwittingly came close to her cubs, was killed 400 metres outside an authorised hunting area.

Gérald Darmanin admitted that security arrangements for the Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid were wrong, and that his first public remarks – blaming English fans – were a mistake.

Alan Carter said that the investigation into the stabbing of his wife Karen ‘confirmed a relationship I did not want to believe’ and which she had denied.

Victims have had fingers chopped off by attackers in crimewave targeting entrepreneurs and their families.

In a newspaper interview François Bayrou said he did not rule out a national referendum on a comprehensive plan to reduce France’s debt and bring the public deficit below 3 percent of GDP.

Attackers in April struck at several jails and other facilities across France, torching cars, spraying the entrance of one prison with automatic gunfire and leaving mysterious inscriptions.

Karen Carter, 65, a ‘well-liked member of the local community’, was stabbed to death outside her home in Trémolat, southwest France, on Tuesday.

An AFP journalist saw protesters covered up in black clothing roughly jostling Socialist Party  politicians and activists at a march in Paris.

A political row continues in France over whether certain small businesses – especially bakeries and florists – should be allowed to open on France's only public holiday on which paid rest is mandatory for non-essential businesses.